Fall semester classes begin August 24 at all Colorado Mountain College locations. Additionally, some classes and shorter workshops begin throughout the semester. Please browse the class schedule for complete details.

Applies the fundamentals of music to the voice or specific musical instruments. This course also introduces basic techniques, repertoire, and sight reading.

Application of music fundamentals to the guitar, with emphasis on chord strumming, finger picking, tablature and note reading. Designed for students with little or no musical knowledge. Students must have a playable nylon- or steel-string guitar.

Join Shannon Muse, professional glass artist and CMC stained glass instructor, for a presentation about the many possibilities in the art glass world, including the history of glass, examples of glass in architecture and examples of stained glass from Shannon’s studio and around the world.

This dialogue is part of our Gift of Learning Series, a number of free lectures and workshops presented by CMC students and staff at our Lappala Center in Carbondale. To learn more, call 963-2172.

Bees and humans are deeply interdependent. Without bees, we would lose over a third of our food supply, and they need us too! Join Jolene Singer for a look at our interconnections with the honeybee: their amazing gifts to us and how we can support them in their struggle to survive. Jolene will present the basics on how to start beekeeping. Not a fan of beekeeping? Learn how to support and be a guardian for these important pollinators in other ways.

This dialogue is part of our Gift of Learning Series, a number of free lectures and workshops presented by CMC students and staff at our Lappala Center in Carbondale. To learn more, call 963-2172.

The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence. With scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Annie’s success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single, glorious word: “water”. Samuel French

Curtain is 7 p.m. on Oct. 16-17 and 22-24, and 2 p.m. on Oct. 18 and 25, at the New Space Theatre at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114.

Tickets are $18 for adults, and $13 for seniors and students and $10 for CMC faculty and staff. They are available by calling 947-8177 or going to coloradomtn.edu/theatre.

Join Ken Neubecker, local water advocate and the environmental representative on the Colorado River Basin Roundtable to learn about the Colorado water plan. Ken says, “there is nothing more important for Colorado’s future than water.”

Ken works for American Rivers, a national river conservation organization, as the Associate Director of the Colorado River Basin Program. He is the Environmental Representative on the Colorado Basin Roundtable and has been involved with water, forest and land issues in the Colorado Basin and West Slope for over twenty years. He also has served with the Eagle County Planning Commission, the Governor’s Forest Health Advisory Council, Colorado Mesa University Water Center’s Advisory Council, and is a past President of Colorado Trout Unlimited.

This dialogue is part of our Gift of Learning Series, a number of free lectures and workshops presented by CMC students and staff at our Lappala Center in Carbondale. To learn more, call 963-2172.

Wolves are one of the most misunderstood and persecuted animals, but there is more to their story. Wolves affect ecosystems in a variety of ways and have the ability to help restore balance and sustainability to the landscapes of Colorado. Many studies have been done about wolves over the last twenty years revealing their family structure to be paramount in maintaining their influence as a keystone species. Studies have also established proven methods for livestock producers to better coexist with wolves. By explaining the bigger picture of wolves in their historic ecosystems we hope to impart the importance of restoring wolves to Colorado’s wilderness.

This dialogue is part of our Gift of Learning Series, a number of free lectures and workshops presented by CMC students and staff at our Lappala Center in Carbondale. To learn more, call 963-2172.

Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first string critic. As mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman. Samuel French

Curtain is 7 p.m. on Nov. 27-28 and Dec. 3-5, and 2 p.m. on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6, at the New Space Theatre at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114.

Tickets are $18 for adults, and $13 for seniors and students and $10 for CMC faculty and staff. They are available by calling 947-8177 or going to coloradomtn.edu/theatre.

Sopris Theatre Company presents “Anton in Show Business”
@ CMC in Spring Valley

Feb 19 @ 7:00 pm

This madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre the resemblance is uncanny! As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they’re whisked through a maelstrom of “good ideas” that offer unique solutions to the Three Sister’s need to have life’s deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage comedies, Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains and absurdities of “putting on a play” at the turn of the century. Samuel French

Curtain is 7 p.m. on Feb. 19-20 and 25-27, and 2 p.m. on Nov. 21 and 28, at the New Space Theatre at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114.

Tickets are $18 for adults, and $13 for seniors and students and $10 for CMC faculty and staff. They are available by calling 947-8177 or going to coloradomtn.edu/theatre.

Two lives, Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya, are at the core of this play. They work their small estate, live frugally and keep their emotions tightly reined-in. Then they are visited by a relative, Professor Serebryakov, and his beautiful young wife, Elena. Vanya falls hopelessly in love with Elena, Sonya with a local doctor – and their lives implode. Dramatist’s Play Service

Curtain is 7 p.m. on Apr. 15-16 and 21-23, and 2 p.m. on April 17 and 24, at the New Space Theatre at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114.

Tickets are $18 for adults, and $13 for seniors and students and $10 for CMC faculty and staff. They are available by calling 947-8177 or going to coloradomtn.edu/theatre.